Years ago I was leaving Purdue http://www.airnav.com/airport/LAF before the tower opened. (I think I was headed to Hamfest with some friends. I don't usually get airborne that early.) As I taxied to runway 5 I heard the local turboprop commuter (Mesaba, I think) call a taxi to runway 10. I was...

(Jude10901) wrote in message ... John Lear , a Lockheed L-1011 Captain was on Art Bell's show last night. He stated that whoever concocted 911 The New World Order carried out 9/11; Government Prior...

http://aafo.com/racing/2005/reno_2005-1/images/pages.php?directory=.&curr entPic=18 check image #24 and image #27

Okay, I've never even had a flying lesson, which may explain it, but yesterday afternoon I stopped by a local airport to watch some planes, and noticed that the tower had them all taking off and landing more *with* the wind than against it. The wind was blowing at around 10-12 mph (around 10 or so...

("Wayne" wrote) Free beer is good. A friend of mine named his band "Free Beer" they always wrote that on the sign in front of the bar. Got mixed results.... There's an old (1933) Jimmy Durante/Buster Keaton movie where the G-Men are coming to inspect "The Old Defunct Brewery"...

Last year at SnF I stopped by the Cirrus booth and indicated interest in the Cirrus, leading to an offer of a demo flight. Scheduling problems prevented this from actually happening for over a year, but today the wait paid off. A cold front had come through yesterday, bringing rain, mist, low...

A year ago I started an airport support group called "Friends of Iowa City Airport" to help save our threatened airport. It has now grown to over 170 members, and sending memos, updates and emails to such a large group has become unwieldy. For a variety of reasons I would like to stick with a...

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/573107/M/ HECTOP PP-ASEL-IA http://www.maxho.com maxho_at_maxho.com

Wanna see, what happens if you place two former military pilots of the French Navy in the cockpit of an Airbus A380? A vertical take-off and some acrobatic maneuvers are the result. Two pilots who previously worked for the French Navy have been working as test pilots for Airbus since a few years....

Thanks to a request by Darren Bedwell of the Central Indiana Soaring Society, I've added a new feature to the Geographic Calculators page at GPS Visualizer: "range rings." (I don't know what the official name for something like this would be, so I've borrowed a term that I've seen on weather radar...

I posted yesterday about my first solo, and planned to do some more uneventful circuits today but ended up having a postable experience once again. On final I noticed a bunch of white dots on the runway... seagulls. We had seen them congregating around the runway during runup and takeoff. My...

Below is all the information I was able to find on the FAA.GOV web site at this time. I'm not sure the actual link to the Internet public meeting is actually among the links currently (February 22, 2004] provide on the FAA web site, but there is a lot of good information on how to voice your...

Spoke with the Renton FSDO and they sent me the following link to the 2002 Runway Safety Order 7050-1. As promised, I'll share the word: http://www.faa.gov/airports/runway_safety/aso/Media/2002%20Runway%20Safety%20Order%207050-1.pdf Relevant part is Appendix 2, parts 1 and 2a: 1: "In April...

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/NASA-Seeks-New-Ideas-For-Airspace-Design-225402-1.html NASA Seeks New Ideas For Airspace Design By Mary Grady NASA has launched a prize challenge in search of ideas for how to create a new airspace system by 2035 that could accommodate up to 10 million...

Isn't a policy that reduces staffing, and then authorizes mandatory overtime (with its federally mandated time-and-a-half pay rate) just a bit irrational? UNION: FAA "STAFFING TO BUDGET" The FAA seems intent on challenging long-established norms in terms of staffing levels,...

Is VFR participation by a non transponder equipped aircraft encouraged/permitted in a TRSA? Thanks.

For you computer savvy folks in the newsgroup..... if I wanted to build a web page for my airport that provided live METAR data, where could I get the data from ? I see that the NWS web site has free software for decoding the METAR codes, but where and how do you get the current weather data ? ...

Subject: Reminder | Join us to help save Santa Monica Airport! From: "AOPA - Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association" Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 10:15:54 -0400 (EDT) Help Save SMO! Please join Santa Monicans for Open and Honest Development Decisions. AOPA President Mark Baker...

Any zhongwen speaking ppl over here? How do you call out "Clear prop!" in Mandarin when you mean "Keep away from the prop -- I'm starting the engine." Used as a standard phrase when flying small planes (Cessna, YAK, etc). Don't ask me why I need this. I do! It's a principle! :-)

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